Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 188]

• Principles of Jurisprudence.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 188 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 326  here with further notations and hyperlinks].

326.

B 188. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; foll. 96. Eleven lines in a page.

Glosses (تعلیقات) on a passage of the Talwîḥ, viz. the paragraph (فصل) on the Good and the Bad (الحسن و القبح), and especially on the four مقدّمات of Ṣadr al-sharî’ah (corresponding to foll. 250 sqq. of no. 322), by ‘ABD AL- ḤAKÎM B. SHAMS AL-DÎN (SIYÂLKÛTÎ d. about A.H. 1060). See, for another commentary and the subject in general, Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 613, and also Ḥ. Kh. vi. 448.

The preface begins: حامدا لمن انزل کتابه الحکیم تبیانا لکل شیء و هدی.

The first gloss is: من قضا بالشرع (قضایا الشرع.r) آه یعنی ان هذا الحکم مما یثبت بالشرع الخ.

Plainly written in a large hand.

On the last page is written: این کتاب حاشیه عبد الحکیم بر مقدمات تلویح. Catal. 226, xxii. (?).